Patricia McMillen’s first full-length poetry collection, Running Wild, was published March 15 with Finishing Line Press and launched at Gallery Victor in Chicago on April 13. Patricia writes: “I didn’t study much poetry at Brown, at the time I was concentrating on short stories with John Hawkes and others, but wrote features and some headlines for the Brown Daily Herald, which gave me a grounding in terse narrative.” Running Wild draws on her mid-twentieth-century Midwestern suburban childhood and subsequent adventures as a musician, lawyer, wife, and (dog) mother, as well as the losses and triumphs that marked her first 70 years. She has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies throughout her 25-year poetry career and is listed in the Poets & Writers Directory.
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Class of 1973